French language Q&A Forum

Hi, I am just wondering if in the following sentences, we could use " l'on" instead of "on" - as per 

https://www.lawlessfrench.com/grammar/on-vs-lon/

(L') On passe toujours La Saint Sylvestre entre potes.

(L') On allume la télé pour voir le feu d'artifice de la tour Eiffel,

Et puis, le lendemain matin, comme (l') on aura tous la gueule de bois (comme d'habitude)

(l') on remplira nos flûtes d'Efferalgan et (l') on criera 'Santé!' en rigolant.

une glace au chocolat OK.....

But in another lesson there was....

Des oeufs EN chocolat...????

Pour quoi??????????????????

Martin hasn't been here for long

This suggests Martin is still here, thus the present tense should be used. Given answer is-Martin n'est pas arrivé depuis longtemps.

Compare this with the previous question:

We haven't lived here very long- Nous n'habitons pas ici depuis longtemps.

Have I mis-understood something? 

John M

Bonjour,

Was wondering about the word frais since it means fresh. I thought that fresh fruit would be similar to saying l'enfant est frais. Or would I be wrong in my following examples. 

Le fruit est frais

The fruit is fresh

L'enfant est frais

Can I also say

Le frais Enfant

The fresh kid

Thanks

Nicole

I know that depuis can be used with the passé composé in the negative sentence but can it also be used with the affirmative?

How would you translate a sentence like:

I have seen him once since last week or They have visited their grandmother twice since last week. 

When I translated them into Google and other translation sites they both use the affirmative passé composé with depuis, which I didn't think you were meant to do. 

Salut, 

I find the story line a bit strange..... the story seems to be about the guy learning about "authentic" Chinese food, but the food practices in the rest of the story was also quite "off". It doesn't bother me so much even as someone from that culture as the goal here is the French practice. I'd just read it as something written without much knowledge....

If you ever decide to make the story line more consistent, Tsingtao is a much more popular Chinese beer than Tiger, which is a Thai beer. And I guess the digestif is acceptable if it's a must for a French customer, haha, even though it's not so common culturally.

Thanks for reading.

This list seems a bit incomplete.   What about other vocab such as :

rain / rainy

hot / cold / sunny

I have found it useful to translate rappeler as 'recall'. It's synonymous with remind, but its English language grammar is more similar to rappeler- you recall x to someone , you remind x of someone - and rappeler surely has a root in appeler, to call, re-appeler, recall. Helpful?